Battery/Storage

Vicinity extends commercial solar + storage rollout to $75m, five states

Retail asset manager Vicinity Centres extends solar and storage plans by further $50m, across another 17 shopping centres, to cut…

September 3, 2018

Victoria solar rebate: Let’s make those 650,000 systems VPP-ready

By encouraging households to install a VPP-ready, ‘smart’ solar system, the Victorian government can plant the seeds for the distributed,…

August 29, 2018

Melbourne shared solar + storage pilot wins state grant

Melbourne project to install shared solar and battery storage in three multi-tenanted buildings has won nearly $1m from the Victorian…

August 28, 2018

Community retailer Enova to pilot Bryon Bay microgrid

Enova Energy reveals plans to develop a microgrid in its home town, to encourage the roll-out of locally generated, stored…

August 22, 2018

Redflow batteries help power new beginning for heritage-listed Adelaide building

SA architecture taps home grown energy storage solution to get around a power supply problem that cropped up in the…

August 22, 2018

Victorian town plans "smart energy precinct" to halve industry power costs

Local business and community in coastal town of Port Fairy begin work on developing multi-million dollar, renewables-based smart energy precinct.

August 1, 2018

WA energy minister mulls home battery incentives, in solar tariff review

WA energy minister to review solar tariffs, and possible incentives to boost battery uptake, as the state's rooftop PV market…

July 31, 2018

Power Ledger extends P2P solar sharing to WA apartment complex

Perth company applies P2P platform to Fremantle apartment complex with solar and battery storage to offer residents "transactive layer" to…

July 27, 2018

Is this Australia's biggest home rooftop solar and battery storage system?

Stately home in regional Victoria could boast Australia's biggest grid-connected rooftop solar and storage system, after the innovative installation of…

July 24, 2018

Redflow ships "biggest" battery order, to help power Fiji digital TV roll-out

Australia's Redflow has shipped its largest-ever order of zinc-bromine flow batteries, to provide energy storage for Fiji’s new digital television…

July 12, 2018